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Job Description
Brief Description
Reporting to the Tech Lead Infrastructure Operations, the position holder shall provide expertise in planning and deploying of the organizations Database Installations, capacity planning, and support of ALL Safaricom Enterprise Database (DB) Systems. The databases span from Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra, and Hadoop & all other related database platforms.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Sharing expertise with Squad members and working cross-functionally to advance the work of the Squad
- Design BCP and HA solutions for critical systems in order to achieve zero downtime during maintenance and failures;
- Monitoring system performance and identifying problems that arise.
- Responding in a timely manner to user-reported errors.
- Protecting the database against threats or unauthorized access.
- Ensuring that the database is adequately backed up and able to be recovered in the event of memory loss.
- Reporting on metrics regarding usage and performance.
- Suggesting changes and improvements for database maintenance or protection.
- Regularly liaising with IT project managers and database programmers.
- Designing databases with both front-end and back-end users in mind
- Identify and implementing Best Practices for Database Administration in Liaise with vendors
Qualifications
Qualifications
- BSc Degree in computer science, IT or engineering;
- Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- BSc Degree in computer science, IT or engineering;
- 5+ years’ experience in infrastructure support and/or planning in an environment with mixed Database Variants
- Experience in Nosql databases, Mysql and other OpenSource databases platforms
- Experience in Oracle RAC, Dataguard, RMAN and Engineered systems.
- Experience in Linux/Unix Operating system.
- Database Systems Administration Techniques – understanding of DB Performance tuning on various Operating Systems, good troubleshooting skills, Database Migration and ILM techniques
- Attention to details and analytical thinking.
- Certifications –OCP, OCE; EXADATA Administration; MSSQL Server Administration; Hadoop Administration; Linux/ UNIX certification
- Cloud knowledge and integration models.
- Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication and leadership skills
How to Apply
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.
